Retrieve the list of running windows services using the Windows Management Interface (WMI)

Use the ManagementObjectSearcher to query the Win32 services and retrieve the list of services.

The code block below shows you how:

List<string> runningServices = new List<string>();

ManagementObjectSearcher moSearcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(""SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE Started = TRUE"");

foreach (ManagementObject service in moSearcher.Get())
runningServices.Add(service[""Caption""]);